# Calanus

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{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}}
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| image = Effect-of-Grazing-Mediated-Dimethyl-Sulfide-(DMS)-Production-on-the-Swimming-Behavior-of-the-marinedrugs-11-02486-s001.ogv
| image_caption = ''[Calanus helgolandicus](/source/Calanus_helgolandicus)''
| taxon = Calanus
| authority = [Leach](/source/William_Elford_Leach), 1819
| synonyms = 
* {{nowrap|''Cetochilus'' <small>Roussel de Vauzeme, 1834</small>}}
* ''Daphinia'' <small>Rafinesque, 1817</small>
* ''Diarthropus'' <small>Brady, 1918</small>
| synonyms_ref = &nbsp;<ref name="WoRMS"/>
}}

'''''Calanus''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [marine](/source/marine_(ocean)) [copepod](/source/copepod) in the family [Calanidae](/source/Calanidae) (Order [Calanoida](/source/Calanoida)).  The genus was split in 1974, with some species being placed in a new genus, ''[Neocalanus](/source/Neocalanus)''. The following species are recognised:<ref name="WoRMS">{{cite web |author=T. Chad Walter & Geoff Boxshall |year=2022 |title=''Calanus'' |editor=T. Chad Walter & Geoff Boxshall |work=World Copepoda database |publisher=[World Register of Marine Species](/source/World_Register_of_Marine_Species) |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=104152 |access-date=December 27, 2022}}</ref>
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*''[Calanus aculeatus](/source/Calanus_aculeatus)'' <small>Brady, 1918</small>
*''[Calanus agulhensis](/source/Calanus_agulhensis)'' <small>De Decker, Kaczmaruk & Marska, 1991</small>
*''[Calanus chilensis](/source/Calanus_chilensis)'' <small>Brodsky, 1959</small>
*''[Calanus dorsalis](/source/Calanus_dorsalis)'' <small>(Rafinesque, 1817)</small>
*''[Calanus euxinus](/source/Calanus_euxinus)'' <small>Hulsemann, 1991</small>
*''[Calanus finmarchicus](/source/Calanus_finmarchicus)'' <small>(Gunnerus, 1770)</small>
*''[Calanus glacialis](/source/Calanus_glacialis)'' <small>Jaschnov, 1955</small>
*''[Calanus helgolandicus](/source/Calanus_helgolandicus)'' <small>(Claus, 1863)</small>
*''[Calanus hyperboreus](/source/Calanus_hyperboreus)'' <small>Krøyer, 1838</small>
*''[Calanus jashnovi](/source/Calanus_jashnovi)'' <small>Hulsemann, 1994</small>
*''[Calanus marshallae](/source/Calanus_marshallae)'' <small>Frost, 1974</small>
*''[Calanus pacificus](/source/Calanus_pacificus)'' <small>Brodsky, 1948</small>
*''[Calanus propinquus](/source/Calanus_propinquus)'' <small>Brady, 1883</small>
*''[Calanus simillimus](/source/Calanus_simillimus)'' <small>Giesbrecht, 1902</small>
*''[Calanus sinicus](/source/Calanus_sinicus)'' <small>Brodsky, 1962</small>
*''[Calanus torticornis](/source/Calanus_torticornis)'' <small>(Brady, 1918)</small>
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